Iolani Palace
364 South King Street
Honolulu, Hawaii
(808) 522-0822
The bookstore is located in the historic Barracks Building
M-Sat, 9:30 AM to 5PM (phone orders, too, for books and gifts) http://www.iolanipalace.org/

“Read like an Iolani Palace Docent”http://www.hawaiibookblog.com/?p=3383 blog post dated 23 July 2010, a list of books required if you would like to be a docent at Iolani Palace. Many of the books I listed above are on this list. I could give tours, but it’s a long commute!

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It’s almost a given that we will soon be making another trip to Hawaii to continue to research the connections to my family tree. Here are some things I need to look at the next time around:

1.) Nathaniel Bright Emerson- He was the son of Reverend Emerson of the Queen Lili’uokalani Church in Haleiwa, and was a physician and author in Honolulu. Corinne Chun, the curator of Washington Place has several of his writings, and is investigating the connection between John Dominis and Nathaniel B. Emerson.

2.) Visit the Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu, and research some of the other Boston and Massachusetts families who lived in 19th century Hawaii. Many of these women socialized with Mrs. Mary Dominis.

3.) I have not even begun to look at all the correspondence in the Hawaii archives. There are many more boxes of information on the Dominis family, and Lili’uokalani’s own papers and photographs.

4.) Ditto for the archives at the Bishop Museum library.

5.) Have some time to stroll around the Oahu cemetery. It’s like a page out of history reading the names on the gravestones. Right next door to the Dominis family plot was the Damon family of Holden, Massachusetts. This is the town where I grew up, at the same Congregational Church that sent Reverend Damon. I went to Sunday school there, and was married at the same church!

6.) Friends of Captain John Dominis and Governor John Owen Dominis were from Boston. I have copied some correspondence from Captain Charles Brewer of Jamaica Plain to Mrs. Dominis. There are many other letters, and these folks might end up being cousins or just friends.

7.) Who are Reverend Andrew Yates and his wife? They were guardians to the two Dominis daughters, who were left behind in Schenectady to attend a finishing school. Were they relatives of the Jones or Lambert family?

8.) Reconnect with the cousins I just met in Hawaii, and learn more about the family members living in present day Hawaii.

In the meantime, I can look at this end for Boston and Massachusetts links to some of these mysteries. It will keep me busy whilst we collect frequent flier miles all over again!

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Author of the Nutfield Genealogy blog and occasional genealogy speaker. My family research includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with a smattering of Nova Scotia. Please contact me if you see your ancestors on this blog. I would love to share information. I am the former secretary of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, former President of the Londonderry Historical Society, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Mass. Society of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.